Bottle opener



Oct. 18, 1932. I A. F. WINTERS 1,883,216

BOTTLE OPENER Filed on. 12. 1931 FYI muerifox' Patented Oct. 18, 1932 UNITED STATES PATEN r OFFICE.-

ALEXANDER F. WINTERS, 0F GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN, ASSIGNOR T0 WINTERS & CRAMPTON MANUFACTURING COMPANY, OF GRANDVILLE, MICHIGAN, A CORPO- RATION OF MICHIGAN BOTTLE OPENER 7 This invention relates to bottle openers, and it is a primary object and purpose of the present invention to provide a novel construction of bottle opener, which may be used in connection with a latch keeper mounted upon a refrigerator. It should be under stood, however, that the bottle opener described is not essentially limited in its application to a latch keeper nor does it necesiarily have to be mounted upon a refrigerator, but that the construction hereafter described and claimed may be mounted and used in any desired or available place of use where its functions are to be served.

An understanding of the invention may be had from the following description, taken in connection with the accompanying drawing, in which,

Fig. 1 is a side elevation of the bottle opener of my invention showing the same mounted on a support, and

Fig. 2 is a perspective. View of the bottle opener.

Like reference characters refer to like parts In the figures of the drawing.

In the illustration shown, the support 1 may be any suitable support, and in practice is a front vertical door frame member of a refrigerator casing. The bottle opener in he embodiment shown is applied to a latch keeper, the construction of which includes a base 2, adapted to be secured to the front face of a door frame, from which an integral post 3 extends outwardly, and which is continued in an upper curved finger 4c and in a lower upwardly and outwardly extending arm 5, said arm 5 at its outer end terminating in a downwardly and forwardly extending arm 6 located at an angle, preferably slightly greater than a right angle, to the arm 5; and the arm 6 at its end and lower underside is supplied with a hook formation indicated at 6a. The base 2, post 3, finger 4 and arms 5 and 6 with the hook 6a are made as an integral casting.

A metal plate 7 is either bent back upon itself at one end or swaged and upset to form a head 8, and at the other end is turned substantially at right angles to make a lip 9. At the inner corner, where arms 5 and 6 join,

the metal is removed, either being machined or cast with a recess, to receive the head 8, and the metal member described is pressed into place with the plate 7 at the inner side of the arm 6, the lip 9 at the inner side of the hook 6a and extending slightly beyond the same, and the head 8 fitted in the recess described.

The construction described permits separate heat treatment and manufacture of the metal plate member, such giving economy in manufacture and a sturdier product.

lVith a construction as described a bottle, as indicated in dotted outline at 10, having a cap 11 thereon, may be placed'so that one edge of the cap 11 comes against the downwardly and inwardly extending lip portion 9, while the cap adjacent its opposite edge portion bears against the corner 12 as a fulcrum, said corner 12 being substantially at the point where the arm 5 joins with the post 3. Then, by pressing downwardly and inwardly on the lower end of the bottle, the

cap is readily removed.

The construction described, while of simple character, is one that is very practical and effective for the purposes of which it is designed. The claims appended hereto define the invention which is to be considered comprehensive of all forms of structure coming within their scope.

I claim:

1. A bottle opener including two arms formed as an integral casting and adapted to be positioned with one arm extending in an upward and forward direction, and the other arm extending from the front end of the first arm in a downward and forward direction, the second arm terminating at its lower end in a downwardly and rearwardly extending hook, and a plate of metal formed at its lower end with a downwardly and rearwardly extending lip located at the inner side of the second arm with said lip bearing against the hook, and the opposite end of the plate seated at the inner corner formed by the junction of the two arms.

2. A bottle opener including, a casting formed of two arms located substantially at right angles to each other, one arm being V adapted to be located so as to extend in an upward and forward direction, and the second arm extending from the forward end of the first arm in a downward and forward direction and terminating at its lower end in a downwardly and rearwardly extending 'ihook, said arms at'the corner formed at the junction of their lower sides having a recess, and a stamped plate of metal provided with a head inserted in said recess at one end, lying alongside the inner rear side of the second arm and having a lip turned to extend in a downward and rearward direotion bearing against the inner rear side of said hook.

In testimony whereof I afiix my signature.

ALEXANDER F. WINTERS. 

